Thinking strategically

Dr Colin Combe

The Reflective People Manager
The aim of this module is to critique and develop the concepts and skills associated with managing oneself and others within the workplace. It provides a conceptual understanding of contemporary issues facing those involved in people management and looks at the skills required to successfully manage people.

Leading & managing people

Gillian Kellock Hay

Managing Performance for Business Excellence
The module develops an understanding of the external and internal factors driving and enabling organisational performance improvement and business excellence across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. It pays particular attention to the challenge of balancing efficiency, effectiveness and equity/societal outcomes.

Managing resources & performance

Dr Susan Ogden

Management Techniques & Theories
This module provides students with the basis to examine critically a range of management tools and techniques throughout their postgraduate programme. The emphasis is on examining management techniques and the basic theories underpinning them, thereby focusing attention on the ideas, assumptions and research findings on which orthodox management theories and techniques are based.

Evaluating management tools and techniques

Dr David Silbergh